[resolved] WordPress local installation problem (6 posts)

Hope someone can help me with the following.
For a client I need to make a few changes on his WordPress site.
The site so far has been done by someone else, so I wanted to install the site locallay (with MAMP) to test some stuff without messing up the live site.

I have done this before without problems, but now when i got to local:8888/sitename it redirects to local/sitename where of course it cannot find the site.

okay, I thought it might be an .htaccess issue, so I turned my invisable files on visible, turns out the .htaccess file didn't come along when I downloaded the files.
So I downloaded the .htaccess, and without changing anything there, now going to local:8888/sitename in firefox results in going to the live site, and in Safari it looked to be going alright.

So I thought: okay I'll work in Safari... BUT...
when I tried to log in local:8888/sitename/wp-admin), it went to the live site as well...